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Barack Obama is wrong. He has been telling us that the US economy has created 4.5 million new jobs in the last 30 months, and we now have empirical data showing he's wrong. He's wrong, because according to just-released adjustment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the correct number of new jobs created under President Obama is actually about 5 million! Under President Obama, as of March of this year, the private sector created 453,000 more jobs than was previously thought. 67,000 more public sector jobs were lost (thanks to Republican governors firing teachers, police and firefighters), netting a total revision upward of 386,000 jobs.

This revises a few numbers. First, as I said at the beginning, it turns out that the President has been selling himself short when he said in the last 30 months, we created 4.5 million new private sector jobs. The right number is about 5 million jobs. And as TPM notes, this revision puts President Obama in positive territory in terms of net jobs created since he took office:

In January 2009, the United States had 133,561,000 total non-farm payrolls. The revised BLS figures put him into positive territory by July 2012, when the number is now deemed to have been 133,631,000.

This is the most direct proof yet that President Obama's policies were entirely responsible for pulling us back from the brink of a financial calamity that would made the Great Depression look like child's play, and that under his leadership, every job lost in the Great Recession after he took office but before his policies had a chance to take full effect has now been restored. When the president took office, it is worth remembering, that our economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month, and shrinking at a near 10% rate. And today, we have created 5 million new jobs in the last 30 months under President Obama's leadership.

Is that enough? Not when you compare it to the more than 8 million total jobs lost during the Republican-caused Great Recession. We have so much more work to do. But the measure of a leader must be where we began with and where we're ending up.

As we get closer to the election, this is what more and more Americans are looking at. Despite ideological warfare from the Right and ideological whining from the Left, people are examining what the president has been able to do with the cards he was dealt when he entered office. What they are finding is that his policies have worked, and they would have worked even better had a political party in this country not been taken over by a relentless focus on obstructionism. That is why as we get close to the election, the polls are showing the President rising.

In his speech to Congress, Netanyahu argued strongly against a deal being negotiated with Iran to rein in its nuclear ambitions. The speech had a distinct ring of desperation however, and his constant appeal to "world powers" is a window to President Obama's powerful global leadership.

The media narrative on John Boehner has remained the same for a very long time: poor fella. He's trying you see, but the uber conservatives in the House just won't let him compromise. Bullshit. It's time to change the narrative and recognize Boehner for the unflinching servant to the ultra right wing in this country he has been. It's time to stop terming him a victim and start exposing him for willingly endangering American security and American progress.

"I have no more campaigns to run. I know, because I won both of them." This was the instant classic jetting all over social media (and other media) in the aftermath of the president's State of the Union address as he burned the GOP. But there's a deeper message in that zinger: Obama warned the GOP not to mess with him.

Mitch McConnell started off the Republican propaganda campaign the other day to claim credit for the improving economy under President Obama. But in poll after poll, Americans are crediting the president. Though it's often true that the sitting president bears more than his share of blame or credit for contemporary economic condition, every single positive economic indicator today can be tied to specific Obama policies.

Republicans and the media are having proverbial orgasms over the symbolism of the absence of a "more visible" American representative at the Paris solidarity rally than the US ambassador to France. A "journalist" went even so far as saying that he is ashamed to be an American because of it, while high ranking GOP officials - who themselves refused to go to the march - representing the party that had the word 'french' officially removed from Congressional cafeteria menu items because France wouldn't go along with George Bush's war of lies beat the drums. Disgusting.

December concluded a surging year for jobs - creating 252,000 jobs in that month alone and reducing the unemployment rate to 5.6%. At the rate of current job growth, a full employment economy is possible within a year. But we didn't get here by accident. We got here because a president refused to give into the cynics and the special interests and never stopped working for the American people. This recovery is, in every sense of the phrase, the Obama Recovery.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, the rate of US (non-medicare eligble) adults without health insurance has fallen to historic new lows, the lowest since Gallup began tracking. The lion's share of the benefits went to low income adults and minorities, who needed the law the most.